Georgia Zoumpopoulou is a member of the teaching and research staff in the Laboratory of Dairy Research at the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition of the Agricultural University of Athens. She graduated from the Department of Food Science and Technology of the Agricultural University of Athens in 2002 and obtained her PhD from the same University in 2008. During her PhD thesis, she has obtained a Scholarship for postgraduate studies from the Marie Curie Fellowship Organization (for one year in the Laboratory of Lactic Acid Bacteria and Mucosal Immunity at the Institute Pasteur of Lille, France) and a Scholarship for postgraduate studies from the State Scholarships Foundation of Greece (Ι.Κ.Υ.). She has co-authored 31 publications in peer-reviewed journals and four book chapters. She has participated in 52 International and 18 Greek Conferences. Her research interests include probiotic properties, isolation, physiology, metabolism and technological performance of lactic acid bacteria, and she has been scientifically involved in several National and European funded projects. She is a scientific member of the ACA-DC Culture Collection of the Laboratory of Dairy Research and an active reviewer in peer-review scientific journals.